Frasi di Wilson Mizner

Wilson Mizner , sceneggiatore statunitense.

✵ 19. Maggio 1876 – 3. Aprile 1933
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Wilson Mizner frasi celebri

“Alcune delle più incredibili storie d'amore che io conosca hanno avuto un protagonista solo.”

Origine: Citato in Gino e Michele, Matteo Molinari, Le Formiche: anno terzo, Zelig Editore, 1995, § 1388.

“Ne ho passati di anni a Hollywood, e penso ancora che i veri eroi del cinema siano tra gli spettatori.”

Origine: Citato in Portala al cinema (The Moviegoer's Companion, Think Publishing, Londra, 2004), a cura di Rhiannon Guy, traduzione di Luigi Giacone, Einaudi, Torino, 2006, p. 53. ISBN 8806183044.

“Sii gentile con coloro che incontri salendo le scale perché sono gli stessi che incontrerai scendendo.”

attribuita anche a Jimmy Durante
Origine: Citato in Alva Johnson, The Legendary Mizners, 1953.

Wilson Mizner Frasi e Citazioni

“Quando rubi da un autore, è plagio; quando rubi da tanti, è ricerca.”

cartello dell'Hotel Rand di New York, gestito da Mizner
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Wilson Mizner: Frasi in inglese

“That man was so much larger than life that there's no scale by which to measure him. Most of Wilson's dialogue, if put down on paper, seems either vulgar or obscene.”

Gene Fowler, as quoted by Anita Loos, Kiss Hollywood Goodbye, Viking Press, New York, 1974, ISBN 0-670-41374-7.
About

“It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.”

On his later respectability.
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
Wisecracks

“Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.”

Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
Epigrams

“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.”

Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
Epigrams

“When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.”

Quoted in Alva Johnston's The Legendary Mizners (1953, Farrar Straus and Young, New York, chapter 4, p 66) and Bartlett's, 1992, p. 631.
Also quoted as If you copy from one author, it's plagiarism. If you copy from two, it's research by Stuart B. McIver in Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags.
Epigrams

“I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.”

On his deathbed.
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
On Death and Dying

“Florida was invented for Addison Mizner's little brother.”

Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
About

“…a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottom boat.”

On Hollywood.
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
Wisecracks

“Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy.”

Telegram to his brother, upon the news that Addison was fatally ill.
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
On Death and Dying

“You can't be a rascal for 40 years and then cop a plea the last minute. God keeps better books than that.”

On his deathbed.
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
On Death and Dying

“To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.”

Quoted by John Burke, Rogue's Progress, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1975, ISBN 0-399-11423-8.
Wisecracks

“Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.”

Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
Epigrams

“Tell 'em to count to ten over him and he'll get up.”

On hearing that his prizefighter, Stanley Ketchel, was dying of gunshot wounds.
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
On Death and Dying

“Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet them on the way down.”

Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
Epigrams

“A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.”

"Maxims Old and New", All of a Piece: New Essays https://books.google.com/books?id=4vEQAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22A+fellow+who+is+always+declaring+he%27s+no+fool+usually+has+his+suspicions.%22 (1937), edited by Edward Verrall Lucas, p. 52.
Epigrams

“America's most fascinating outlaw.”

Anita Loos, as quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
About

“Harry Thaw shot the wrong architect.”

Disparaging the work of Joseph Urban, his brother Addison's architectural rival. Harry Thaw was a wealthy man of the times who had shot and killed architect Stanford White over his earlier involvement with Thaw's wife Evelyn Nesbit.
Quoted by Alva Johnston, The Legendary Mizners, 1953, Farrar Straus and Young, New York. Johnston allows that the quote has been attributed to many others, but makes a good case that Mizner said it first.
Wisecracks

“Treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a whore.”

Quoted by Anita Loos, Kiss Hollywood Goodbye, Viking Press, New York, 1974, ISBN 0-670-41374-7. Loos goes on to claim that "the aphorism had no validity for Wilson."
Epigrams

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